2 0. A. R. CONVENTION ENDS IN HARMONY Congress Adopts Resolutions Aimed at Radicalism and Pacifism. Th? thirty-seventh Continental Con |Hs of the D. A. R. adjourned yester ■day amid an avalanche of harmonious Resolutions that drowned out discordant echoes of the insurgent stonn against »the society's policies on national defense and "subversive influences,” Not content with smothering the re bellion led by Mrs Helen Tufts Bailie of Boston and Mrs. St. Omer Roy of Kansas, arch-critics of "black lists"’ and defenders of " free speech.” the congress .‘concluded its sessions by adopting nu merous i e solutions reaffirming its stand against radicalism of all kinds and in favor #f adequate national de fense. The resolutions were the battle cry of victory voiced by those who had met the •’rebels” and defeated them. Although forced to admit defeat, Mrs. •Bailie fired a parting shot after the j convention, armed at "Mrs. King George Brosseau and Mrs Lord North Walker." otherwise the president general and chairman of national defense of the ■society, respectively. She intimated • that the rebellion was only beginning. 5 ”Strain Eofier” Parley. . "The congress has gone on record as a sica in roller convention." said Mrs. Bailie, as .- ;:e prepared to leave for Bos ton. We hate* ’ played tire game ; strictly according to role, and what hare ;« e ercotmrered? Voinble abuse and j .persistent evasion of the very serious problems a: issue From the instant of ! ‘their arrival m Washington delegates ! .have been showered with Mrs. Bros- j .aeau’s manifestos denouncing the com- j j-mittee of protest, who have been ; threatened by htr with discipline and libel suits; "The present leaders of the D A. R have gone on record that much has been accomplished. Mrs King George nßrossea* and Mrs. Lord North Walker i 1 qpd their loyalists have wou a mernen- ! ! Ary victory. But. like the victory at : i Bunker Hill it proves too costly. The revolution fe well under way. and can not be stayed. There are disagreeable surprises in store for the autocrats of j J the D. A. R." j In addition to passing a number of j ; natrictic resolutions of their own. the 1 delegates voted indorsement to a set 01 19 resolutions adopted by the Wom ens Patriotic Conference on National Defense, at its meeting here last Feb ruary. These resolutions excoriated ] i pacifism. Socialism and ail other! j * dangerous" doctrines, and indorsed a j strong Navy and merchant marine, re- I {Stnctica cf immigration, increase of j • Army reserves, ciuaeas’ military train-1 * tag camps, creation of an adequate } military air force. ctmOnuaoon of the j Chemical Warfare Service, safeguarding j of American history m textbooks, etc. Raps Power Plan. The society voted to protest any plan ; for hydro-electric power development at ! Great Falls that would mar the be.vutv ' of the Potomac gorge or submerge -the 1 hail-ruined walls of the five locks of 1 ae old Potomac canal, conceived, pro- ! ; moied and constructed by Gen. George i Washington.” The resolution will be j afrit to President Coohdge and bo each j . member of Googresa - . - . j Other resolutions approved during the j ♦ closing hours of the congress indorsed ! ] of Fdm Wayne. Mien., as ! J a public park, publication of the War , 3Pcparimpr,is l< a> . I |mianaey War rec- Mitis. j^wjCOan\,ol a monument to 1 Geh. George Rogers Clark, creation of ’ a national psrk at Washington camp ■ Ground, N. J„ and extended thanks to ! President QodLdge and other speakers I at the convention and to police and firemen assigned to the empress. Many j ether resolutions of routine ’■ character were adopted The motions disposed of, the congress I Installed tbs 4even new nee president} ' general which it elected Muring tnc j week and confirmed the new regents from *9 States and several other jurte dicuons. 1 Oflk iaia Installed. The vice presidents generaJ were to stalled by Mrs. Matthew Brewster, chaplain general They are: Mrs. Eu- j gene Chubouck, Illinois; Mrs Waitemac ' Hkrrixun Conaway West#Virginia; Mrs. James Lathrop Gavin. Indiana. Mrs Brooke G. White, jr.. Florida; Mrs Henry Bwne Joy, Michigan; Mrs Charles B Jones, Texas, and Mrs. Rob- * ert Howe Monger. lowa. The new State regent from the Dis- i trite of Columbia is Mrs. David p ! Caldwell. 234 2 M• auut Pleasant street. ] and the new state vice regent is Miss ! Helen Hannan. 3524 Thirteenth street Some ot tiie regents confirmed repre- I sent the D A R. in foreign countries id iuuiug China, Cuba, England auo France. The enure 11.000.000 neooed to; finance Constitution Hall, the new au-1 ditorium of the D. A. R to be erected ; ta the rear of Memorial Continental ] Kail it now in hand. It was reported I by Mis Russell William Magna, chair man of the finance committee. Many , aodluonal pledges and contributions Were received during the final session.. Plan* now' can he nun*- to start ton str ictuon. M, « T C Cochran, Mercer, Pa., pledged $lO in memory vs Calvin Cool idge ;r, who, she said, "was an in spiration to my boy* a lien he was at Mereersburg Academy." Mrs. John Trigg Mm gave SSKJ “in honor of the press.” Little Randolph Coyle, 4th, young son of Mai Randolph Coyle. V H M C collected gi 47 from the delegate, by passing Ills Marine cap around Trie boy wore a complete Marine uniform in miniature Scores cf ot her gifts were made from the floor. The final social event of the congress was the annual banquet last night at the Willard Hotel Mr» William May hew Wilson of Ohio was toastmistrese. Among those who tpoke were Mrs Ed win C Gregory of Nor th Carolina. Mr* Chari** Brand of Onto Mr* William /. Becker State recent of New Jersey; Mrs. Brooke Q White of Florida, Mr* Henry B Joy of Michigan and Mn P ll'/i/an of Ohio The guests ot i.mior were Mrs. Bros #e*u and the national officers of the society More than seven hundred at tended. • ' -Wl - ADMIRAL DENIES PLAYING POKER WITH SINCLAIR hauuitr, in Letter to Wilbur, At tack* Oil Probe Testimony of Capt, ftobhos, , Admirai J L la*timer, Cornnmndant Li tiae Philadelphia Wavy Vaid. denied /yeatotday ttaa*. he pj»yed teAet at a lOi nijxr with Hairy P HUuit.it, oil fuag ■ n au in 1522 a* U-aUfied by Capl J lit Robison retired, in in* oil man’s •trial in connection with the Teapot ■ /•«* leaft* 1 in a letter ho b»» re’aiy Wilbur intAt mobile at tn* Navy fa-partment Ad ftinai MUkitf said that la- itad nevei I’tenced a dinner given by Sinclair It otic at which Bin* itU was present U ce jand he bed never ~a*yed leckei gitii Sinclair or a gam* a* which Sin te.tii was present er j fi) admiral said it* iasd never met # •.,*.< 1*» or u 4 aii> < verbal ion with iforfi on on'- That was Iwc the Fail of 1924 when tie wa* or- T*«.d to Ctaryenn* Wyo a* a wiUmss fmLn<- r l*-a|Joi Doim- Uiai UtM* in Ut* fr- 1 ' ’ bf Ua Se'jetaav of the Wavy, | RescuoP ! i nWB ' * -s'Hi < APT. r. J. SULLIVAN. Commander of Truck Co. No. 3, who hung out a window for 5 minutes last night with a woman he had saved from a fire, until members of bis company rescued them. Star Stiff Photo | FOUR ARE RESCUED IN BURNING ROUSE Man. Woman and Two Chil dren Taken to Hospital After Blaze in Home. - Summoned by a woman who ran screaming through D street .shortly after 9 o'clock last night, firemen res cued a man. woman and two children from a burning house at 1309 D street and seut them to Emergency Hospital, where they were said, this morning, to be in serious condition from bums and suffocation. The most seriously burned was Mary Barnes, colored. $3 years old. The others were her grandchildren. Bernard , and Alouxo Matthews. $ and 4 years old. respectively: and their father, Richard Matthews a chef in the South ern Lunch. Thirteenth and D streets. Capt. P. J. Sullivan of No. 3 Truck Company was partially overcome by j ; smoke when he went into the hoiw and rescued Richard Matthews He ■ created considerable excitement when ; he hung from the third-story window j for about five minutes after the rescue He later resumed his duties, refusing treatment. The first to enter the building was 1 Private M. R. Burnett, t.rmer Marine and driver for Deputy Fire Chief E. R Davis. After groping his way from the first to the third floors he located the Barnes woman and carried her to j the street. The .’hildren were brought out by Firemen J. W. Kay and H. F. Rothery of No. 3 Truck Company. C hildren Saved by Ladder*. The knowledge of the predicant_iu of the Matthews : amity was carried to the fire house by Mrs. Jennie Wil tamsou. part owu*r of the house. Upon the arrival ot .he engine, an alarm i was immediatelv turned ta and within a few minutes the narrow rtreet was j filled with fire .'ogtaes and spectator; Reserves from first precinct held the ertwd back on the sidewalk whj? ' firemen scaled ladders to the window I and smashed it in. The children were j brought down danders, -but their fat htr ; was placid on •..he roof until the smeke , j had cleared enough to carry him 1 through the house The blaze, of undetermined origin, i started in a rear wall on the first floor and ate fts way to the top. It caused damage of approximately SSOO Alex i mdrta cars were he’d up on the loop lor l more than an hour D. A. R. ADVANCES | ACTIVITIES IN D. C. Mrs. M. S. Willey, State Re gent, Submits Yearly Report. i Marked progress along Americamza j tion. educational civic and patriotic < lines featured activities bf the 60 D A j R. chapters in the District of Columbia ’ during the past year, according to the annual report of Mrs. Maud S. Willey. : Stale regent for the District of Colum bia. The Americanization work has oeen | earned on under direction of Mrs. W W Husband, 'hate chairman and also ; national chairman, the report said These activities have been launched in connection with the Americanization 1 school of the public school system, it was explained Women are brought to i this school from outlying dis trie:.'- in a Rotary Club bus, weekly 1 unchain* : -j are given the alien girls and worn*:, at ' tending the school, silk flags are pre- ! sented to the new clllzena and other j i is given those wishing to be- | come Amerkian citizen*. The report stated that there are now 13741 members ot the society in the] * Di*t rict The Swu and Daughter* of tlte Republic have four clubs with a ! membership of 145. The conservation and thrift commit- I toe lias planted 1175 trees on farms and in home gardens, 17 chapters have signed tii* wild flower pledge, five | efiaptor* had programs on forestry, many birdhouses and bird baths have beeu placed and many visits have been | made to service hospitals, It was i j/dnted out The local Constitution Hail finance committee has placed the District high i up on the list of contributors to tiie propped auditorium, it was said In ail, 17.L32 wa* ratoid for tills project ] during the year under Mrs Davicf D i Old well and htr committee, bringing the total contribution to $17,957. The Continental Hall and Revoiu- J j lionary relies committee donated to the onneum a coilecUon of 2d articles own* 1 1 d by Oil Gordon Hutchins, Revolu | tionary soidier The gift < true from j t};s George H. Barnes of Deborah < Knapp Chapurr, C'iotk fa I’ardiawd, A valuable old clock was purchased from Uie estate of Ui# lato Thomas Pag*-, Ambassador to Italy, and placed in urn Iristrict r»/om at society head quarters Ihe local student toati fund •omuii tto<- i* assisting a student at tieorge Washington University to eom ' oteto tier oourw rjthtr mmm ittoes which have done good work it was slated, are the flag committee the Ellis Island committee, I fi*e foreign relations commlitoe, the genealogical tewarch committee, na tpioai defense commlitoe. patriotic edit . C„ A PUTT, 22, 1928-PART I. oSmrd Federation, After Debate, Approves Plan for Edu cational Body. i Tiie Federation of Citizens’ Assoeia j .ions lari night Indorsed in principle the Capper bill providing lor an elective Board ot Education, and for the second i time in recent months rejected a pro posal designed to preclude it.s delegates ] from accepting positions with publn . utility CTiiporations in the District. Action on the Capper bill was pre ! ceded by an animated discussion during | which opponents of the measure made a j vain at tempt to prevent a vote on the ground that a committee had not re ported on tire measure and some of the ‘ delegates were unfamiliar with its pro visions. As a copy of the bill was not available. James G. Yaden, president of the federation, and several others ex plained briefly the major differences be tween that measure and the Gasque j elective school board bill. The latter was indorsed in principle by the federa | lion some time ago. The vote of indorsement was 28 to 13. Four delegates recorded themselves as j ’not voting." Discharges Committees. Consic .’ration of the Capper bill fol ■ lowed tiie adoption of a motion of j Charles I. Stengle discharging the com j mit tee on local suffrage from further ; deliberations on the Gasque bill. The ! :ommittee had undertaken a survey of j the federation's constituent bodies to 1 ascertain sentiment with respect to the measure before making a report j The principal plea for a delay in ao j non <>n the Capper bill was made by B. ! A Bowles, delegate from the George- I own Citizens' Association, who raised ja point of order that the federation could not indorse a measure without a i ropy before it He was overruled. The chief supporters of the bill were Herbert Wilson of the Manor Park Citizens' Association. A. H. Gregory of the Stanton Park Citizens’ Association and Hugh M Fr amp lon of the Cath edral Heights Citizens' Association. Wilson urged that the bill be indorsed primarily to contradict the statement of Commissioner Dougherty before a ‘ congressional committee, that there i no real sentiment in the District Jor an elective school board. Report Is Submitted. The retusal of the federation to forbid its delegates to serve public utility corporations in an official capacity was in accord with the recommendations of I a special committee headed by Harry I N. Stull, to which had been referred resolutions toward this end adopted by ' the Kenilworth and Trinidad Citizens ! Associations. The adoption of Stull's report was preceded by a protracted discussion, j Louis Gelbman and G. M. Koockogey w*re the chief opponent*. Delegate Stull while discussing his report paid tribute to the character and integrity of President Yaden and Jesse C. Suter former president. Mr. Yaden » a member of the board of directors of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. Mr. Suter was m the employ ot the law firm headed by William G. McAdoo, who represented Harley P. Wilson, prin cipal owner of the bus company dur ing the transit merger negotiations. The federation admitted to member ship the Glover Park CUianis Asso ciation. and at the request of Mr. Suter authorized appointment of a com mittee of five to co-operate with like committees of the civic federation of Arlington County, Vw * and Montgom ery County. Md.. in arranging a gen eral civie outing to be heM in June RAILROAD PAfS D. C. $30,000 IN CLAIM CASE ... ;• Settlement of Pint #re*t Tunnel Fight Leaves Only One More Pending. j < , ». r The Pennsylvania Railroad Co * turn- ; ed over to the District Commissioners yesterday a check for $30,000 in full settle man ol the municipal govern ment's claim tor damages for restoring the surface of First street cast from B street southeast to C street northeast caused by the settling of the roadway jver the First street railroad tunnel. Tiie $30,000 represents a compromise of the District government's original claim for $60,000 which has been in fispute since April. 1920 The settlement of the so-called tun- j , nel rase leaves only rug-Bmoking Material „ Is Confiscated. I f ** , 1 j A quantity of opium and opium smok ing materials were seized during a liquor raid on the [/remises at 120 Virginia avenue southwest, late yesterday after noon, when members of the vice squad, headed by Sergt O J Letterman, had gone to the house with a warrant for I the arrest of Charlie Crompton, colored, j I**e King, 27 years old. 120 E street ! southwest and Olivia Spence, colored, 23 years old 914 First street southwest, were arrested and charged with violating the Harrison anti-narcotic act. Entering a rear room on the second floor members of the squad, police say, caught the Chinese and the colored woman In the act of smoking opium. I As they approached, It was reported, the two set fire to some bed clothing in an effort to prevent detection of fumes on* • anatlng from au opium lamp burning \ nearby. j The Chinese is said to have told po j Bte when questioned that he had pur (chased tiie opium from a Chinese wlio i brings a quantity to Washintgon frran New York »ach week. The man and woman will be taken before the United Btates commissioner Monday morning. FIRE THREATENS TOWN. Flames in Ban Miguel, Mexico, Controlled With Great Difficulty. MEXICO CITY, April 31 Do you tire easily? Have you a poor appetite? Are you losing weight? Have you pains in the lungs Do you cough persistently? -- front or back? , If you have some of these symptoms go at once to your doctor or have yourself examined at the free I # t Health Department Clinic Tnbprrulo*l# lio»p!t*l, Hill A li|««litir HD. N.W., Tuekday. Thursday or Saturday at 2 1 ii'nlsck. Friday rvriiingk from I:3® » nthuk i Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis TcUphon# Main »92 1022 Strsst N.W. * * plv- i .Jlfe''. KENNETH CARTER, Sinclair Case Juror. how the judge feels over tiie guiit or innocence of the defendant. But in Judge Bailey's charge I didn’t get any idea of his personal feelings and 1 don't believe anybody knows how he felt but himself." • What did you do for diversion when j you were locked up at night?” he was | asked. "There wasn't much we could do." j he replied. "A music store loaned us ! a Victroia and we nearly wore tnat out. We played it nearly all the tune between the courtroom and bedtime. I i think ve did wear out the "Golden Slipper" record. That was the ta : vorite and toward the end it was get ting mighty feeble. AU of us slept in one room. The beds were comfortable ! and we didn't even have one snorer. j They fed us good, but I missed being ; away from my family. "i have got to get reacquainted with | j them,” he declared as he grabbed up j his 3-year-old baby girl, who had been j ; hangmg onto his knees. "I don’t want I another experience like this. Just tell the people that wc did oar best as : j American citizens.” j Tiie case haa been given to the jury i i by Justice Bailey at 10:27 o’clock yes | terday morning, and the announcement i from the Jury room at 12:la o’clock j brought surprise to the waiting inter j ested parties. The corridor was filled | with people when at 12:19 o'clock Chief Deputy Marshal s. B. Callaghan ran 1 i down the steps leading into the lobby' Irutn the floor above, ordering all per sons Into the courtroom who wished i I to enter. Justice Bailey entered court and took j i his place at ihe bench a minute later and issued caution against any disturb ' nnee or demonstration on the part of i the spectators, declaring he would pun-! f ish any such expressions on tho iind -1 tags of the jury. At 12:22 o'clpok the jury filed In. and Clerk Wallace iitick ney. turning to Anderson, who tad been chosen as foreman, asked it a verdict! had beeu reached. Anderson replied in the affirmative. Sti.kney asked: I Is it guilty or not guilty?” There was a pause of a fraction of a ! second, and Anderson without any feel ing or emotion replied, "Not guilty.” | As the jury entered the courtroom, ; Sinclair arose voluntarily and held .mi tightly to a chair in front of him. He ! appeared to tremble lrom head to foot as the acquittal verdict was given. Sinclair Discharged. Justice Bailey excused the jury from further duty until tomorrow morning and as the jurors left the room Darnel I'hew Wright of Sinclair counsel moved that the defendant be discharged. Jus tice Bailey granted the motion. As the Jurist left the bench Sinclair was confronted with congratulations, and smilingly and at the same time tearfully acknowledged them His comment on the verdict was: "l have felt from the inception of these charges that l would be acquitted ot everv suspicion of intention to defraud the Government if the charges were ever passed upon by a jury I am happy at the outcome, of course, but it is onlv what I have expected iMxiau.se I knew that I had not acted corruptly or un ethically m negotiating tiie lease.” Mrs Sinclair, the defendant's wife, was in a virtual state o; collapse and was led slowly from th» court building by Sinclair. Her fitcc was burled in a handkerchief as she valked from the building. Littleton and George P. Hoover of this city. Sinclair's counsel, were wreathed In smiles As the jury left the courtroom and were about to return to their quarters. Hoover stopped DRURY, IN ANNULMENT SUIT, LAYS MARRIAGE TO TRICKERY Son of Banker Claims Bride j Plied Him With Liquor Before Wedding. Wife Files Divorce Action, Charging Husband With Desertion. I ! - Charging that his bride of six weelcs, the former Baroness Anna Jean von Hagen, designedly plied him with liquor and took advantage of his intoxicated condition to marry him for the pur pose of attaining pecuniary advantages from his parents. Peter A. Drury, jr., of this city, has filed suit for annul ment at Reno, Nev., according to news ! received here yesterday by telegrapn. This news was followed quickly by i the filing of a suit for limited divorce ! in the District Supreme Court about | noon yesterday by Mrs Drury, the for ■ mer baroness, who charges that her hus- I band deserted her five days after their romantic elopement to Rockville on the night of March 3. Mrs. Drury says in her declaration that her husband called her on the telephone March 5 and told her “there was to pay,” and that his father i was furious. She declares that later 1 the same day young Drury called her ' again on the telephone and said that his father had telephoned from Jack sonville. Fla., to his attorney in this city and oi dcred his son's name stricken from his will. Peter A. Drury. sr„ is th” president of the Merchants' Bank & Trust Co of this city. Husband * Allegations. The husband alleges that as soon as he became sober he repudiated the marriage. He has been in Reno since March 28. Mrs. Drury is living in her husband's apartment at' 1616 Sixteenth street. In his complaint filed at Reno young Drury sets forth that he was in such a state of intoxication that he did not know what was going on. For several days before the marriage, he alleges, he had been in this condition, having been plied with ardent spirits. He says that his bride had been previously married three times. Mr Drury's iawyer. who filed the mit, is E E Roberts, mayor of Reno and a tormer member of Congress from Nevada Mrs. Drury is represented by Raymond Neudecker, an assistant United States attorney. *'l have obtained depositions," said Mr. Neudecker yesterday, “showing that at the time of the marriage Mr. Drury i was as sober as a judge." When Mrs. Drury was informed that her husband had filed an annulment suit she said: “That is very curious: I wish you would tell my lawyer.” The wife in her suit charges that j them, shook hands with each, thanked ! them for thetr verdict on behalf of i ‘-.'■Hlr and toid them what a pleasure t had been to appear before them. Littleton observed to the seemingly ""“'s of people who offered congratu lations to him for his part in the case, The persecution is ever,” The verdict drew adverse ccrrment from Senators Nye. chairman of the t il •«: Edvards of New Jersey and ' " •* rs A'aowcua. Chairman Nye said 1 the jury’s decision was an “added evi | fence that it is ipparently Impossible to I convict 51.000,00 b in this country.” Heflin characteriaed the verdict as "astounding” in a brief speech in the i Senate yesterday afternoon. When he : arose to speak he said he wanted "to i comment on a very shocking and ! startling thing that has just taken place in the Capital.” Edwards issued this statement last night: “The ultimate aftermath of the verdict of acquittal in the Sinclair trial i will result in the defeat of the Republi , can party in the coming presidential elections. Blames Party Leaders. ! "It was not a court jury who acquit - i ted Sinclair, but the duplicity of Re publican party leaders, cabinet officials and trusted public servants in the i Harding-Coolidge administration which paved the way for iust such a travesty j as was consummated at the Nation's j Capital today ” Senator Walsh, prosecutor of the Senate oil committee, declined to make , any statement at present. Senator Borah who us endeavoring to collect a fund to repay to Sinclair the 1160,000 he contributed to the Republican party campaign deficit in 1920. made this comment: “I'll have to re-read the Su preme Court decision ” This reference was to the court's decision in voiding the Teapot Dome lease and describing It as "tainted with fraud.” The composition of the Hiry and the order in which they sat in the jury box. follows: Harry W’ Brooks. 35, 834 Eleventh s reet northeast, steamfitter. William H Wrenn. 67. 1430 Rhode Island avenue, groceryman. Leou D. Vanderloo, 27.1728 Twentieth street, real estate. Niven F Ladd. 32. 2327 Q street southeast, grocer. Fred R Kocher. 28, 709 Kentucky avenue southeast, grocer. Howard A. Bradley. jr„ 22. 1940 Second street northeast, auto salesman. William F Throop. 47. 1163 Third street northeast, bicycle company official. Edmund J. Lynch, 39. 416 Fourth street northeast, clerk. Washington Gas Light Co. Benjamin F. Anderson, 58, 5300 1 Thirty-ninth street, manager Crane Co. j L. Clark Brown. 35. broker. 2831 I Twenty-eighth street. Ray R Shockey, 26. 1402 Emerson j street, clerk Capital Traction Co Kenneth Carter. 28, 1341 Taylor ] street, railroad agent. The next court development growing I out of the Senate oil committee's pro-1 ceedlngs will take place May 21, when ! Robert W Stewart, chairman of the board ot the Standard Oil Co. of lndi- j ana. will be placed on trial in the Dis trict Supreme Court ou a charge ol ] contempt of the Senate This was an nounced yesterday afternoon by United j States Attorney Leo A. Rover Stewart 1 refused to answer certain questions pro- ! pounded by the committee as to wliether 1 he knew any one who had handled Con tinental Trading Co Liberty bonds or whether he discussed the liberty bond transactions with Sinclair Wright's Statement. Daniel Thew Wright of counsel for Sinclair last night issued the follow ing statement: “There never was a finer, more up standing. fearless and independent group of American ciMaena ever gotten together than that Jury. If Sinclair had been guilty they would have con victed him in five minutes. "The verdict is not merely a not gutlty verdict; the verdict la a com* K'ete exoneration The next move of e Government will tie to aboliah the jury system and to try all indictments before Senator Walsh personally,” JAPANESE DIET CLOSE. TO KID, April 21 UP) The opening of the new JaiuMiehe Diet yesterday showed a victory for the Tanaka gov ernment, but the margin was so close that the tiuleu'udents are now in a B Milton to swing future votes against ir ministry The Tanaka government elected its candidate lor Speaker of the Diet, but should the government meet defeat next week on some of the problems before (he Diet tt may mean dissolution and a general election. , MRS. PETER A. DRURY, JR., Photographed yesterday as she left the District Supreme Court, where she filed suit for a limited divorce. I i young Drury willfully deserted her ■ March 8 and has since remained away from her. She tells the court that her husband gets $7,000 a year as manager o! the Southern Building and earns $7,000 additional by his real estate work. She declares that her husband is a member of a prominent and wealthy family well able to support him in idleness in case he should cease gainful employment to avoid support ing her. She is unemployed, she says, and has no income and assets. Asserting that from the date of their marriage her husband has not con tributed anything to her clothing, maintenance or support other than such necessities of life as she has been j able to obtain on his credit, she charges that he attempted to surrender the lease of the apartment at 1616 Six teenth street and ordered the gas and electricity turned off. She declares the grocer with whom she was dealing was ordered not to sup ply her any groceries on the credit of her husband. Excepting a grocery bill for goods purchaser by her up to that time, she alleges tha t none of her credit accounts has been paid. Mrs. Drury claims that March 19 her husband executed an alleged assign - i ment by which he sought to transfer : to Margaret S Drury, his former wife, all money due him from the Southern i Building Investment Company, and all household furniture in the apartment where she was residing. ( The engagement of the first Mrs Drury to marry Charles Witte Waring I of Charleston. S C., April 30 was an : nounced yesterday by Mrs. C. C. Cal houn. her mother. 11l mm BUT NOT SURPRISED Former Interior Secretary Says He Anticipated Ver dict—Feared Hung Jury. | By the Associated Prcse. i PASADENA. Calif.. April 21.—Albert . B. Fall, former Secretary of the In terior. said here today he was "grati ! fled but not surprised" by the acquittal i in Washington of Harry P. Sinclair i with whom he is charged with having ! conspired to defraud the Government ! j in the Teapot Dome oil lease. Mr. Fall is a patient at a sanitarium , I here. I I "I have very little to say." Mr Fal' continued, "for I had expected the ver dict front the first The only tiling j feared was tha possibility of a hunt i Jury. Prejudice injected into the at mosphere in Washington. I feared ; might perhaps cause one juror to hold , j out for a verdict of guilty, but I am ! | vpr V gratified that such was not the ! f asp - The defense was based upon the truth, and truth was recognised "Throughout the trial the defense presented the true story of the transac* decided to let the Continental oil deal about which I knew nothing, alone. Conjectures and rumors of pri vate deals made by cal men threatened at first to cloud the real issues, i "Stories of profits various gentlemen jwere supposed to have t*k>i from oil , fields adioining the Teapot Dome in- ! 1 jected the poison and advents criti ! asm into public comment on the case j 1 which resulted in turning the Teapot i Dome oil reserve over to exploitation ! b >' persons owning wells outside the i j confines of the lease, who attempted j to draw oil from wsthm the bourn- I Aries of the reserve. "The situation today is that within 72 hours after judges of the Supreme > Court of the United States had decided the civil case, a naval officer, having charge of the Teapot Dome as it was turned back to the NawTralled upon operators in Salt Creek field adjoiumg Teapot Dome to pay the Navv for oil! which these private operators were said to bs deriving through their own wells from the Teapot Dome. "They are still. I understand, en- i raged in the effort to secure such pay- i ment. despite the fact that the United i States Supreme Court had decided that i there had not been, and never would i be. any real damage done to Teapot i Dome itself." Mr. Fall's condition is declared to be materially improved since his arrival here Under Physician's orders he had denied himself to interviewers until to-; day and declared he would have no! further comments to make. BARTHELMESS WEDS NEW YORK DIVORCEE »Motion Picture Star Hastily Mar ried to Mrs. Jessica Sargent at Reno. H.V lh» RKNO. Nev . April 21. ~ Richard Bat theltuesa, well known motion picture actor, and Mrs Jessica Haynes Sargent of Reno, formerly of New York, were married here last night by Qiatrictfi" 1 Bartlett, it becamtf IVarUirhncss rived In Beno ear W lyfe* JlI wedding were kUw-MuSkPI erne Vkter, motion . „ . picture actress, anti , ' , * h * M * toarthehaww Dallas F Hqulres. a college chum ul Barthelmeas Mrs, Sargent was divorced In Reno (gat January from Harry Brook* Sat • i gent, New York broker, « BUREAU FURLOUGHS | BEGIN TOMORROW Engraving Layoff Will Last to End of Fiscal Year, i June 30. The furlough plan for operating di%i --j sions of the Bureau of Engraving and : Printing will become effective from to j morrow morning until the end of this i fiscal year, June 30. < * i While there was some different.* of ; opinion among employe*, most of them. having had a similar experience in the I past, accepted the change as a mat j ter of course. Many of them, it is known j were not sorry to receive the furlough, i which means only a few days off wtth j out pay during the next two months | A few objected. The principle of the furlough, how ever, which is to accommodate the amount of work to be ‘done, and the amount of money available, will en | able the bureau to operate with its ' full force during the remainder of the i fiscal year without the necessity of j any dismissals. The furlough had not ! been used to any extent in the past two years. Three years ago it was em ployed on a wide scale. Failure of the Federal reserve ban/.; to order deliveries of paper money for | May and June was one of the factors I involved, which cut down both work | and money available. ! Already 1,500 persons have been or. « furlough of one day in every five, max ing 300 persons off daily from the pla j printing division. To these will b added virtually all the remaining work- I ers of the operating division Abotr 5 4,700 altogether will be on furlough. ! and about 618 or 620 will be off duty ! each day. The largest divisions going on fur ! lough tomorrow and the number of da-. , off duty for the next two months are ;as follows: Wetting, examining, num- I bering and stamp divisions. 4 days; I plate printing office, engraving and j engineering and machine. 9 days: pres 1 register. 8 days: rag laundry. 24 days j ink making. 3 days, and the remainder i 2 days. The orders for furlough were Iran-- j mitted to the various division heads for communication to the workers. FLOOD BILL CHANGE MEETS OPPOSITION House G. 0. P. Leaders Fail to Win Support (or Presi dent’s Revisions. ! B.v the Associated Preas House Republican leaders failed §es . terday to get supporters of the Senate | Jones flood control bill to approve re- I visions desired in the measure by . President Coolidge. The overtures were rejected by the opposing group after a day of many conferences and in the lace of predie ; tions by House Republican leadership that the measure in its present fbrn was headed toward a presidential veto. . The failurej>f these J • bring me flgfr' WRj ffjf open umdtto'* ’ on the House floor, where ter twq days, consideration 0t The bill has beeti sus i pended in order that Internal cor - i Terences might not be hampered by i proceedings in the Hofise chamber. Reid May Head Group. The impending fight to expected to 5 find Chairman Reid of the flood coi - 1 troi committee heading a group con> ‘ posed of many Western Republican and virtually the solid Democratic ; membership against the administra ! tion forces supporting the position o! ' President Coolidge Reid said after a committee meeting 1 late yesterday that he could muster su - ; Relent totes to pass the bill oy a "large majority." while Representative Tilsca of Connecticut. Republican floor lender, said the administration camp had the f strength to sustain the Preside*; t in the svent he should veto the treasure. In addition. Reid announced the com mittee had decided to meet early to morrow to determine the exact nature of the bill they would support in the House He said that two alternatives were open—consideration o 4 the Senate Jones bill as amended by the House romminee. or a new measure drafted to meet some of the President's objections. Object ta Revisions. The break between the two camps j came when the House committee re ! fused to go with the President on three | of several revisions whtch Mr Coolidge outlined to Republican House leadens .at a White House comerence Friday night I—i proposals were regarded by | both groups as embodying the crux of vh* financial policy to be pursued bv the Government in carrying out the flood control program. Toe rejected ; changes were; ! Provision that States in the Missis ! sippi River basin area meet the cost, in steao of the Government, of rights-c-- } way for levees on the proposed nood j ways and spillways. ? Assumption of damages by New Or leans for the proposed Bonnet C*r:o * spillway and a similar assumption r i local interests m southern Illinois and southeastern Missouri of the pccgxvW. s New Madrid River be.uk floodway Instead of outright purchase of flow - age rights by the Government in con nection with the land falling wiUun Ih? flood ways and spillway*. a proposal th«: the property ow ners should be required I to seek redress in Federal court*. MARINE IS WOUNDED IN NICARAGUA CLASH Rebels Flee as Troops Return Fire. Saudi no Believed Losing Support. j B* the Nm. MANAGUA, Nicaragua. April 31 ta Audio KUaui a Marine private from ; ladonia. Tex. was slightly wounded t\v buekshot Thursday evening when rebels fired on a Marin* patrol near Kt 3aui duran .wHUv'es have said that siaudi-»o nas kv»t ground with his supporter* on that side of tire burdn and is reevivma i leas financial and rdher aid r e N 'urces report that danduio rehwed to listen to the advice of his Honduran * friends and that thev have become d s sHiraged. Mas F T Crure. onUtary attacsw -t San Joae, Owsta Met* arrive*! teoYv horn Tegucigalpa by airplane Re said i ail was quiet op the Honduras-Nk-w --lagua border.